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Eli Ben-Sasson is the Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board at StarkWare, a researcher of Zero Knowledge Proofs, and a Founding Scientist at Electric Coin Company (aka Zcash Co). He was an Associate Professor at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology for seven years, a Visiting Assistant Professor at TTI Chicago, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Alessandro Chiesa
Alessandro Chiesa is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at StarkWare, Associate Professor at EPFL .
Jonathan Caras
Jonathan Caras is a core contributor and Head Of Communications at Levana Protocol. Previously, he was a partner at cryptocurrency hedge fund Lionschain and business development Manager at StarkWare.
Shahaf Gonen
Shahaf Gonen is a co-founder of Alterya and was previously a software engineer at Google. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Michael Riabzev
Michael Riabzev is Co-Founder & Chief-Architect at StarkWare. Cryptography expert, programming since I was 12.
Uri Kolodny
Uri Kolodny is the Co-Founder and former CEO of StarkWare, where he is working hard to scale blockchains using STARK zero-knowledge proofs. He has also served as an Advisor to Certora, Co-Founder and CEO of Mondria Technologies Ltd., Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Greylock and ICV, and Co-Founder and CEO of Timna. Uri holds a Master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.
Sam Eiderman
Sam (Shmuel) Eiderman is the co-founder and Chief technology officer of Utila and was previously a senior software engineer at Google. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Louis Guthmann
Louis Guthmann is the Ecosystem Lead at StarkWare, a company specializing in cryptography and blockchain technology. He is also the co-founder of the Zero Knowledge Global Meetup, which focuses on promoting education and discussion about cryptography and blockchain. Prior to joining StarkWare, Louis worked as a data scientist, applying deep learning to cyber security at Check Point Software Technologies. He also has experience as a founder and data scientist at Lookies, where he developed data visualization tools and a general data management API for building management.
Bentzi Rabi
Bentzi Rabi is the co-founder and CEO of Utila and previously worked at i3 Equity Partners. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Avihu Levy
Avihu Levy is Chief Product Officer at StarkWare and was previously a KayHut security researcher. He graduated from the Technion.
Oren Fine
Oren Fine is the Co-Founder and CTO at SphereX. Oren Fine talpiot graduate and 8200 alumnus. Retired as ltc. from the army after a 20-years long career in the cyber security domain.